About 2 weeks ago, they informed me that the server was running a DOS attack again and had been taken off the net.[ ... ]
They included this log:
List of malicious processes:===============================
wwwrun 56545 0.0 0.0 23012 4204 ? S Apr26 00:05:13 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL
Is wwwrun a user on my machine?
On 2017-05-25, Lost in the Future <joe@somewhere.org> wrote:
About 2 weeks ago, they informed me that the server was running a DOS attack again and had been taken off the net.[ ... ]
They included this log:
List of malicious processes:===============================
wwwrun 56545 0.0 0.0 23012 4204 ? S Apr26 00:05:13 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL
Is wwwrun a user on my machine?
Not unless "they" who included "this log" have an account on your
machine and got the log from there.
Why would ISP people be sending you logs from your own machine?
On 2017-05-25, Lost in the Future <joe@somewhere.org> wrote:
About 2 weeks ago, they informed me that the server was running a DOS attack again and had been taken off the net.[ ... ]
They included this log:
List of malicious processes:===============================
wwwrun 56545 0.0 0.0 23012 4204 ? S Apr26 00:05:13 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL
Is wwwrun a user on my machine?
Not unless "they" who included "this log" have an account on your
machine and got the log from there.
Why would ISP people be sending you logs from your own machine?
To answer your questions about that sort of stuff, we'd probably need aList of malicious processes:===============================
wwwrun 56545 0.0 0.0 23012 4204 ? S Apr26 00:05:13 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL[ ... ]
Is wwwrun a user on my machine?
It's a virtual server. It could even be that it's running on some giant piece of hardware somewhere, with hundreds of others.your Hosting provider can figure out from what VM the traffic originated
The ISP doesn't have an "account" but "plesk" is apparently the virtualization software, which apparently gives them considerable accessPlesk is an interesting choice for an hypervisor, especially since it
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